Today's post, Mirrors and Paintings was originally published on 23 August 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

There is a proposal for programming a friendly AI, called CEV. Essentially, this strategy consists of teaching a computer to look at human brains and deduce, from that, morality. This should work better than trying to program morality "by hand", since we really aren't smart enough to solve that problem with an acceptable degree of accuracy.

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